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Botswana still struggles to seal its border from thousands of Zimbabweans who flee economic collapse and political persecution; Namibia has long supported, and in 2004 Zimbabwe dropped objections to, plans between Botswana ...
www.exxun.com/Botswana/i_ti.html
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... Beaufort Sea, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the Gulf of Maine including the disputed Machias Seal Island and North Rock; Canada, the US, and other countries dispute the status of the ...
www.exxun.com/Canada/i_ti.html
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... island of the Crozets). Discovered and claimed by France in 1772, the islands were used for seal hunting and as a base for whaling. Originally administered as a dependency of Madagascar, they ...
www.exxun.com/FrenchSouthernandAntarcticLands/a_fg.html
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protection of the arctic environment; preservation of the Inuit traditional way of life, including whaling and seal hunting
www.exxun.com/Greenland/b_mp.html
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These uninhabited, barren, sub-Antarctic islands were transferred from the UK to Australia in 1947. Populated by large numbers of seal and bird species, the islands have been designated a nature preserve.
www.exxun.com/HeardIslandandMcDonaldIslands/a_fg.html
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... whaling captain who indisputably discovered it in 1614 (earlier claims are inconclusive). Visited only occasionally by seal hunters and trappers over the following centuries, the island came under Norwegian sovereignty in 1929 ...
www.exxun.com/JanMayen/a_fg.html
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red with a green pentacle (five-pointed, linear star) known as Sulayman's (Solomon's) seal in the center of the flag; red and green are traditional colors in Arab flags, although ...
www.exxun.com/Morocco/d_gv.html
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... REPUBLICA DEL PARAGUAY, all within two circles); the reverse (hoist side at the right) bears the seal of the treasury (a yellow lion below a red Cap of Liberty and the words ...
www.exxun.com/Paraguay/d_gv.html
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three equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue, and red, with the Slovenian seal (a shield with the image of Triglav, Slovenia's highest peak, in white against a blue background at ...
www.exxun.com/Slovenia/d_gv.html
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The islands, which have large bird and seal populations, lie approximately 1,000 km east of the Falkland Islands and have been under British administration since 1908 - except for a brief period in ...
www.exxun.com/SouthGeorgiaSouthSandwichIs/a_fg.html
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... arms features a shield with a golden lion centered; the shield is supported by a fur seal on the left and a penguin on the right; a reindeer appears above the shield ...
www.exxun.com/SouthGeorgiaSouthSandwichIs/d_gv.html
seal
... incidental mortality of seabirds resulting from long-line fishing for toothfish note: the now-protected fur seal population is making a strong comeback after severe overexploitation in the 18th and 19th centuries
www.exxun.com/SouthernOcean/b_mp.html
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... arms on the hoist side of the yellow band; the coat of arms includes the royal seal framed by the Pillars of Hercules, which are the two promontories (Gibraltar and Ceuta) on ...
www.exxun.com/Spain/d_gv.html
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... nearly 60% of the Norwegian population on the island, runs many of the local services, and provides most of the local infrastructure. There is also some hunting of seal, reindeer, and fox
www.exxun.com/Svalbard/e_ec.html
Seal
... Canada at Dixon Entrance, Beaufort Sea, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and around the disputed Machias Seal Island and North Rock; The Bahamas and US have not been able to agree on ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/i_ti.html
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... south between 50 degrees and 130 degrees west]); Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Seals (limits sealing); Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (regulates fishing) note: many nations (including ...
www.exxun.com/SouthernOcean/b_mp.html
Seals
... Flora (1964) which were later incorporated into the Environmental Protocol; Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals (1972); Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (1980); a mineral resources agreement ...
www.exxun.com/Antarctica/d_gv.html
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sand and gravel aggregates, placer deposits, polymetallic nodules, oil and gas fields, fish, marine mammals (seals and whales)
www.exxun.com/ArcticOcean/b_mp.html
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Economic activity is limited to the exploitation of natural resources, including petroleum, natural gas, fish, and seals.
www.exxun.com/ArcticOcean/e_ec.html
Seals
party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine ...
www.exxun.com/Argentina/b_mp.html
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endangered marine species include the manatee, seals, sea lions, turtles, and whales; drift net fishing is hastening the decline of fish stocks and contributing to international disputes; municipal sludge pollution off eastern ...
www.exxun.com/AtlanticOcean/b_mp.html
